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SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 (Xinhua) -- A California cherry grower-shipper has reported gradual restoration of normal U.S. cherries exports to China with less inspection time of the exported items by Chinese quarantine regulation authorities, an online media report said Thursday.
As of Wednesday, inspections of new arrivals of U.S. fruit shipments, including California cherries, into Beijing and Shanghai in eastern China have been released within one day, the freshplaza.com website quoted U.S. exporters as saying.
In the past month, the China Inspection and Quarantine (CIQ) has been detaining all U.S. fruit shipments for seven days upon arrival into China to test for pesticide residues, but the inspection has been eased after the U.S. and China announced in a joint statement last week that China agrees to buy more U.S. farm products.
The U.S.-China consensus prevented their trade frictions from growing into a full-blown trade war after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened in March to slap huge tariffs on hundreds of billions worth of Chinese exports to America.
The Californian cherry grower-shipper has seen his first shipment of Chelan cherries arrive in China and be received, which is "very good news for California cherry growers who are in peak season and heavily rely on exports to China," said the online report.
The U.S. and China were at odds over trade and tariffs in the past months, and China, in retaliation for U.S. move, announced in April a 15 percent tariff on a range of U.S. farm products, including fruits and nuts.
The Chinese tariff on California cherries makes the fruit very expensive, which may result in less competitiveness in overseas market, said the cherry grower-shipper.
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